Laura Knight (1877-1970) was in her lifetime one of England’s most prolific artists, a pioneering painter of women, war, and marginalised people with a long and successful career that saw her travel the world and break conventions. The exhibition, A Panoramic View, surveys Knight’s career spanning almost a century – from her fascination with the backstage world of ballet […]
Jacqueline de Jong is considered one of the crucial artistic figures of the post-war avant-garde. This exhibition, The Ultimate Kiss, is the first presentation of her work in the UK. Throughout her career spanning half a century, de Jong has developed a unique painterly practice. Expressive in style, her work exhibits uninhibited eroticism, violence and humour. […]
Giosetta Fioroni’s practice differs from those of her immediate contemporaries and from the overarching notion of Pop as it came to be understood in the English-speaking world. The divergences are most clearly pronounced in her persistent exploration of femininity, rooted in both her personal experiences and her interpretation of the category in popular culture.
Nicola Hicks’ exhibition Dump Circus is a large-scale installation imagining an urban wasteland, where the natural world has been ravaged and suffocated by debris and greed. Within this scene, a cast of wild and domestic creatures have bested their ringmaster.
WeiXin Quek Chong's exhibition deepdreams_sublimed, brings together sculpture, video, print as well as installation exploring the theme of tactility through sound and material with underlying references to historical & cultural figures and elements. From an interest in dichotomies between digital \ organic, monumental \ minuscule and other constructed binaries, her artistic concerns have expanded into exploring ways […]
Sarah Sze incorporates a wealth of painted and collaged elements and traces of multiple image-making mediums, laying bare the narrative of the studio and the developmental arcs that occur within and between the works. These new wall-based works continue the artist’s decades-long exploration of the ways in which the proliferation of images – printed in […]
Shahzia Sikander's, exhibition, Infinite Woman, includes painting, drawing, animation and mosaic, showcasing the breadth of the artist’s multi-valent practice. Sikander is renowned for recasting pre-modern Central and South Asian manuscript practices into avant-garde ruptures, deconstructing archetypal narratives around femininity, race, memory and migration.
In 2021 Susan Hefuna focuses on landscapes in which she immerses herself and plays with reflections and perspectives made of paper, ink and thread. Hefuna has never drawn in these breathtaking large-formats. LANDSCAPES reflect the artist's experiences with light, sun, fog and shapes in the Swiss Alps as well the artist’s very personal, psychological unknown […]
Perimeters is an exhibition of new and site-specific work by Naama Tsabar. It offers the potential for activation and performance throughout. The exhibition is centred on Tsabar’s most recent series, Inversions, which presents new iterations of four bodies of work that Tsabar has explored from 2006 to the present.
What would it feel like to share the world with machines that could live in the wild and evolve on their own? Anicka Yi offers a vision of a new ecosystem in her exhibition In Love with the World.
Barbara LEVITTOUX-ŚWIDERSKA was one of the most important yet often overlooked textile artists who transformed tapestry from flat decorations to avant-garde installations. Levittoux-Świderska came to prominence in the 1960s when textile entered into mainstream contemporary art. Her work is on display at Frieze Masters, Booth G10.
One of the strongest feminist voices to emerge from Africa in the past 30 years, Everlyn NICODEMUS is an artist, writer and curator. As an artist, she produces powerful works centred on personal and cultural trauma as well as the role art can play in healing, while her research and curatorial interests focus on the […]
For Frieze London 2021, Booth C19, the Gallery presents an all-female booth. New works by Jadé Fadojutimi, Angela Heisch, Wangari Mathenge, and Zoë Buckman will be on view alongside previously unseen works by Jacqueline de Jong and Ming Smith.
This presentation Spotlight, at Frieze Masters explores Nancy Holt’s use of photography in the late 1960s. The presentation focusses in particular on works made during a trip to England and Wales with Robert Smithson in 1969, and includes the major 20-part work Trail Markers (1969).
This exhibition presents a broad selection of Helen Levitt’s colour photographs, showcasing the development of a new pictorial language in her work. Also showing as part of the exhibition is In the Street, the experimental documentary Levitt made with filmmaker Janice Loeb and the writer James Agee which focused on street life in Spanish Harlem.
Continuing a practice which harnesses film, photography, print, text, song and performance to explore social histories and interrogate mainstream historical narratives, Helen Cammock brings together residents and community groups of Rochdale, Greater Manchester to articulate both individual and collective experiences as a way of considering what it means to exist as part of a community […]
Sumuyya Khader’s paintings and illustrations in Always Black Never Blue, capture fleeting moments and snapshots of daily life, originally captured by the artist photographing the world around her. She transforms these snapshots into her compositions, by flattening images and mixing in abstract shapes, colours and rhythms. Her work often feature restorative green spaces, relaxed interiors […]
Deborah Roberts works on paper and on canvas combine found images, sourced from the internet, with hand-painted details in striking compositions that invite viewers to look closely, to see through the layers. In addition to representational imagery, the artist also makes text works in which she juxtaposes words in ways that expose racism and racial biases […]
Practice Makes Perfect is focused on the timely subject of childhood education in Britain. Rosa-Johan Uddoh looks at how schooling forms an early understanding of what it means to be British, but also at what within this is marginalised or left out. Responding to current debates about Black history within the National Curriculum, Uddoh approached the […]
The show Lumen demonstrates Sutapa Biswas’ vital contributions to the Black Arts Movement in Britain and to the shifting understanding of post-war British art. Biswas’ works visually disrupt, challenge and reimagine our present time: visual theorist Griselda Pollock said that it was Biswas who "forced us all to acknowledge the Eurocentric limits of the discourses within which we […]